SG woman lost S$17k she had saved for her wedding to a job scam

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SG woman lost S$17,000 she had saved for her wedding to a job scam

She thought she could make some extra money for her big day, which was scheduled for the end of 2021.She messaged them on Sept 16 last year and they replied immediately, saying she was hired as an affiliate marketing associate, purportedly for e-commerce platform Qoo10.

She was then put in a WhatsApp group where she noticed some instructions came from people with foreign telephone numbers. When her money was not returned, she reached out to the “hirers” who claimed that they could not pay her back as she had taken longer than 10 minutes to complete the task. Even as Iris did their bidding and transferred different sums, including S$6,700 at one go, the scammers told her she had done the job wrongly or was too slow.

 

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